Hour 4- MLB Meltdown

Ben Maller talks about MLB drama headed into Spring Training. Ben touches on the MLB’s economic reform and tries to challenge what they’re all about. He also discusses if the MLB could actually have a realistic salary cap.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio show, Talking pas Ball, and we're talking about
the economics of baseball. What is Major League Baseball's Economic
Reform Committee really about? It was recently revealed that a

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group of owners are getting together to talk about ways
to reform baseball's finances. But what is that really about?
Is a formal salarycap realistic on the horizon in Major
League Baseball? And how come major League Baseball ownership thinks
that parody is the end all be all? That that

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is the key. We'll discuss that and more right now here.
It is our number four follow the money. Well, come
man the beginning. You have another hour of the Ben
Maller Show. We'll do it live. We're doing it life
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I pointed out in the previous hour of the show
that I am now convinced that the modern professional athlete
in all sports across the board is unable to put
in an honest effort in All Star games. That they
make so much money, they've been so spoiled and coddled
that this is too much to ask. It's a bridge

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too far for these these a holes to actually give
us an honest effort in an All Star game. The
NFL All Star Game has been a joke. Now it's
a flag football game. The NBA, they were playing Pattycake.
It was hola hola mattered or defense. So we're done
with that. Even the Baseball All Star Game hasn't been
that good in many, many years. But we are still

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a few days away speaking of baseball from practice games
not real game. No, no, no, we're talking about practice,
not real. In fact, the Tactics League will get to
jump before the Grapefruit League on Friday afternoon. So the
end of this week we got to get through the
rest of today. On Monday, we gotta get through Tuesday, Wednesday,

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and Thursday, and then on Friday it's on like Donkey
Kong and that. In the backdrop, there is a story
brewing regarding the checkbook of Major League Baseball. Now, I
don't know if you've heard this or not. Maybe over
the weekend. It's still a holiday weekend here, maybe we're

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not paying attention, but we have learned that Major League
Baseball is launching something called an Economic Reformed Committee. What
the hell is that, you ask? It is a committee
that will discuss ways the game's economic structure can improve. Okay,

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I'm sure that's easier said than done. This story buried
behind a paywall on the Athletic So let us discuss
the question what is Major League Baseball's Economic Reform Committee
in quotes really about. So I've got merry men, sinkhole

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and property surveyors, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will make soggy ballpark nachos and
a nice salted pretzel. You can't go wrong with that combination. Now,
to lead off, this is a bureaucracy that is a

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direct result of one team and one team over. Only
it is not the Red Sox, it is not the Yankees,
it is not the Dodgers. It is the Metropolitans. That
this new Economic Reform Committee is a result of the
Metropolitans without the Mets, gorging, pigging out on big money

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ball players. This committee is not formed. It is not
but people that are complaining here. They are very upset,
the owners of the mid market, small market teams. And
as we told you in a previous episode of the
show long ago, the person that is public enemy number

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one in baseball ownership circles is Stephen Cohen. He is
the scrooge of owners. They're very upset and they are
suffering from sc DS Stephen Cohen derangement syndrome. The hedge
fund mogul is spending money like a drunken sailor. He's

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making it rain like Floyd Mayweather at the ballet, zooming
at warp speed past the guardrails that have been in place,
weaving in and out, bobbing and weaving as other owners
are very upset with him, and he doesn't care. He
doesn't care about that. He's not worried about your little
luxury tax implications as Stephen Cohen's like, Hey, I'm at

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this age. I'm a Mets fan, I got money to burn,
and I'm gonna make this team blow through all those
speed bumps that you put in you and your little,
your little nonsense guardrails. As a result, this frugal gaggle
of owners, they have blown into the bugle. They frugal bugle,

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demanding a new set of rules to even the playing field.
That's right, more bureaucracy, adding red tape to the landscape.
Major League Baseball's tight wad fraternity of owners is looking
for a handout from Sherwood Forest. Their version of Robin

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Hood and his merry Men. They need their Robin Hood.
Unhappy about the difference, the disparity in the amount of
revenue the big money teams make. How dare them these
robber barons of business. They would like to legalize these
stealing from the rich teams to give to the poor
on a much grander scale than they already have. And

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they currently have a system that has been blown to
smithereens the hustle and bustle of the Mets. And so
they're like, that's not good enough. You must pacify us
and so the weird thing about this, you would think
that this panel that Baseball is putting together of these

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owners upset with the other owner would be all small
market owners or medium market owners. But you would be
wrong to assume that position. Did you know that Mark
Walter of the Dodgers is chairing this economic reform committee?
That's what the Athletic tells us. Is it true? The

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Weasley John Henry, owner of your Red Sox, is on
this panel, ding Ding Ding ding Ding, among the others,
the rather frugal Detroit Tigers with Mike, not Mike, his
son Chris Illige, I believe, from the Tigers. Add Dick
for the Rockies owner also part of this committee. So

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making this sound like a political group that is there
to massage these small market teams. The anger should not
be at Stephen Cone. If there's anyone that the small
market media market owners should be clamoring about and be
very upset about, it is the team in southern California,

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not the Dodgers, certainly not the Angels that you should
point your finger at. The pod squad. The Podres San
Diego has been a poor house franchise for most of
my life. They would have a good team every once
in a while, then they'd have to break the team down,
have a fire sale, have a bonfire on Pacific Beach

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because they couldn't afford to keep the team. And last
I checked, San Diego is the twenty eighth biggest media
market in terms of television and their owner, Peter Cider
or Peter Seidler rather, the owner of the Padres, is
spending with a gigantic cheshire Cat smile on his face.
He's spending like he is in New York or LA.

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In fact, is it true the Padres have the third
largest payroll in baseball, behind only the Mets and Yankees.
That is true, so that should be much more upsetting
to teams like the Orioles, the Pirates, Tampa Bay Raise,

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the Miami Marlins, and all the other usual suspect all right, now, Further,
there is a debate and divide, if you will, about
what changes are actually realistic. Some have proposed revenue sharing
to have a hard salary cap. That's also been tossed around,
So let's address the salary cap is a formal salary cap,

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a realistic option in Major League Baseball, and I am
shaking my head, No, all the bluster and all the
hot air, these windbag owners are saying, I don't believe
it's real. And here's why the owners cannot unilaterally change
the rules without agreement from the players Association. So all

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of this noise about revenue sharing, for example, and in
the salary cap, it's a giant sinkhole preventing this from happening.
There's a giant sinkhole that's there, and if you don't
know what it is, if you don't know what, you
don't know, it is the thing that all owners fear,

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and that requires them to open the books to have transparency,
and they don't want that. And this is what I've
always served from people I know in the sport of baseball,
from what I have been told over the years, and
as I understand it, in order for the Union to
play along, they need to see the spreadsheets of the
teams because they have to. They have to see how

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much the teams are making. What's a fair number for
the salary cap, And from what we have heard, it
is not feasible. And the reason it's not feasible, I'll
tell you why. Because teams like the athletics, the raise,
the Reds, the Pirates, the Marlins, the teams on the
wrong side of the tracks, the hard scrabble streets. Guess what,
they actually make money. And the owners don't want to

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open up the books because if the union saw that,
that would then get leaked down to the fans and
they'd be like, holy crap, these teams that haven't spent
any money on payroll and have been disheveled franchises actually
make money. And I don't make as much as the
Mets and the Dodgers and the Red Sox and the
Yankees and teams like that. But if the Union actually

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got their hands on the finances, it would make these
teams crying hardship look like complete country bumpkins, complete hay seeds.
And so it ain't happening. Plus, the labor deal was
just ratified not that long ago. It's not up until
twenty twenty six, so in order to change things, the

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commissioner would need twenty three votes to pass. But if
you get eight votes to block, you can stop everything
from happening. So, in other words, Tampa Bay, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Miami, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh,
I guess I include them already. The Diamondbacks I gotta

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get to eight. What's what's another penny pitching team I
can throw in there. The Tigers haven't spent a lot
of money. I can throw them in. But the numbers there,
I put the Orioles in there. Don't think I include
the oril So there's eight teams. And if you get
those eight teams, you throw a wrench into the plans.
All right, partning shot, how come Major League Baseball ownership

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continues to go back to parody. Their argument is they
need to stop the Mets and to some extent, the Dodgers,
because it's all about parody. It's all about Now. This
is something that my theory on this, all these sports leagues.
The reason these people in ownership go with parody is
because they're lazy. They are lazy and they think that's

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the way to salvation. They support socialism in sport. I say, now,
my greatest memories as an observer of sport are championship
level teams, dominant teams that go on runs. These are
eras in time. When you have parody, you don't have that.
And the big concern the owners in America they don't

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want to become like the premier league because Premier League
teams actually don't make money. American teams because they have
a monopoly, they all make money, right. Teams in European soccer,
the top level teams often lose money. It's more of
a thing where you want to own those teams because
of the cache that comes with that. But they don't

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actually make money. US sports leagues make money because they
control every and then they've got deals with the political
class in this country. But parody is not the silver
bullet it's made out to be. It's a dog whistle
for mediocrity. And people have been programmed to say I
want parody. It is a misnomer. You do not want parody.

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And the ratings have shown when you have a dominant team,
you either want that dominant team to continue or you
want to see them lose. But either way you will watch.
You are gonna watch more than mediocrity. And while everyone
says they want these parody, this parody set up in
sports when the dust settles, when the rubber meets the road,

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people want to see greatness. You can't have greatness when
every single team is ordinary. You can't do it. So
what should Major League Baseball do to improve the product
without having without having the dreaded parody. So I say
get rid of the NC double A model, Say bye bye.

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The regionalization of Major League Baseball has been a giant mistake.
They've regionalized the sport. It used to be the national pastime.
Now it's the regional pastime. Make it the national pastime again.
You're not gonna beat the NFL, but you don't compete
with the NFL most of the year. The bulk of
your schedules played when the NFL is on vacation, so

(15:20):
higher qualified property surveyors and redraw the maps. Major League
Baseball teams right now reside in local bubbles. They can
get back to interstate commerce and we approve that particular message.
There's a way to do it, and just get it done.

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It's hard, it's so hard. Listen, I don't care about that.
Figure out a way. Figure out a way, all right,
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have the mallor Militia feud straight ahead. We'll turn the
page to the NFL. Are the forty nine ers preparing

(16:28):
to trade Deebo Samuel? Could he have played his last
game with the Niners? Say it ain't. So we'll take
a look at that story as well, and we will
get to it. We will do it next. Polly Fusco
here with Tony Fusco. Yo. As you all know, we're
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(18:04):
These guys are ever Ben mallers Man gets a big Man,
big Man in the air everywhere for you. Dam from
the great state of Pennsylvania, says, duh. Of course baseball

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owners making money, He says, if they didn't, they wouldn't
be in a business. Of course this we know that, David.
But these are the people that cry poverty and complain
they can't compete, they don't make money. And all I
was so if they had to open the books, if
they had no problem with it, then they would they
would do it already, there'd be a sary cap, they'd
open up the books and that'd be the way it is.

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But they're not doing that because they're making gobs away,
which is great for them. But I would have no
problem with it if they didn't get on media platforms
and complain about how hard it is, how difficult it is.
Shut up, you losers, you dopes, That's what I say.
Crying poverty man alive. All right, yeah, it is the

(19:11):
Ben Maller Show. Let's go to Big Panda, he writes
in he says that excellent monologue on the fledgling MLB. However,
there is no way to save this sport as they
have opened Pandora's box long ago by letting those blankety
blanks abscond with a championship or just a piece of metal,

(19:33):
as Rob Manford says. F Manford, f Altuve, Amen on
that did you see that weasel that cheating? Check him
for the buzzer. Al Boove Jose al Bove said recently

(19:55):
that he hopes to retire with the This is contracts
going to end after the twenty twenty fourth season. Of course,
he wants to retire with the Astros because everyone else
thinks he's a scumbag. So the only people that like
him the den of inequity in Houston, which is fully

(20:15):
embraced the mindset no legitimate championship. The Astros have never
won a legitimate championship. Everything's tainted in Houston. It's embarrassing.
Let's go to the phones, the Texas Trucker, the highways
and by ways of North America. Hello, Texas Trucker, Welcome. Hey,
what's going on? Man? So I'm just gonna let you

(20:36):
know I took y'all's some of y'all's advice on that
job interview last week. For the record, I did wear pants,
so that was a good start. Congratulations. But I couldn't
smoke the ball like Cooper was saying, because, like I
told him, I can't do that because if I don't
get the job, I'm still subject to the drug testing

(20:59):
by the federal government, remember, because my hasmach driver's lives
and so that's a fair point, you know what. The Yeah, So,
how did it go? Did you did you feel good
after it when you upset the way you performed in
your job interview? Did you think it was okay? I
think It went pretty good. The weird thing was I
took I took a couple of peanut butter and jelly
shots beforehand to kind of calm myself down. Yeah. Well,

(21:21):
so then the interview on and there was three of
them and I sitting there like, Holy cows, how much
did I drink? Because I didn't realize there was gonna
be three different people in this job interview. So, like
I said last week, my last job interviews in two
thousand and five. Yeah, so this was for us. I
didn't hear the story. You asked for advice last week,
and we gave you if I'm the only one here

(21:42):
that gave you advice. Everyone and Eddie wasn't here last week,
and the guys are not here as well, but we
gave you advice. We told you how to handle it.
And you've not done this scene in a long time. Well,
I think you've got a leg up, Texastructor, because a
lot of people don't want to work these days, and
you actually want to work, so it's hard to find
people that will put an honest day's working, So you
actually have a leg up going into this that you

(22:02):
actually want to do the work. So how long did
they say it's gonna take before they get back to you.
They called me back later that afternoon and I passed
the first round of interview. So alrighty going on to
the second round. I actually have to go down there
for a face to face interview. Now, oh crap, Now
you got to meet him in person. Oh crap, sucks. Yeah,

(22:23):
that's not gonna be a good thing for me. N No,
you'll be fine, you'll be fine. Well, when when is that?
They haven't got got the day down. They had to
do a couple more interviews, and then they were gonna
get once they got the list finalized, they were gonna
let me know. But I have to go down there
for a couple of days. Because all right, now, first
of all, you got this, all right, that's the first thing.

(22:43):
Don't worry about this second. Let us know the date,
call us up and we'll give you another pep talk. Okay,
we'll help you all. But remember texting. When you get
this job, you're leaving the dreaded overnight shift driving the truck.
You gotta download the podcast. You gotta be a podcast guy. Okay,
So I'm still damn right, all right, good luck Texas

(23:05):
Trucker all right guy, he was posted, all right, there
you go, Eddie. This guy needed advice last week. We're
gonna help this guy out. I'm gonna get a big
job for this guy. He wants to leave the trucking
behind and he interviewed for a job on Zoom last
week and hopefully he gets it. So are the forty
nine ers trading Deebo Samuel. His name popped up recently

(23:27):
in trade rumors after last year when he was unhappy
and wanted to trade, the Niners reworked his contract. Well,
now it appears that the Niners have decided no, they
will not trade Deebo Samuel, if you believe them. People
around the forty nine ers, there were some people floating
the possibility of Deebo Samuel to the New England patristall.

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First of all, on this one, you take what the
team says with a grain of salt, because teams lie,
and they will lie to your face. Even if the
Niners were planning on trading Deebo Samuel, it's very unlikely
they would announce it, and so that's the first thing. Secondly,
they would be dumbasses to trade number nineteen. This guy

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is the dynamic all World playmaker. They've now got two
because they got McCaffrey in the trade last year, but
before that it was Deebo Samuel and that was about
it as the All Pro receiver from twenty twenty one.
So they would be really, really dumb to trade this guy.
He's still in the prime of his career. But his
name was floated out last week. And anytime a name

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gets floaded the Treambers films, it says no. But just
because the team says no, it does not mean it's
not a possibility. And anyone on godscreen Earth can be
traded in the world of sports. As we know, Lebron
James was traded Kareem abdul Jabbar, the two all time
leading scorers in NBA history, were both traded. Lebron technically
was traded to the Miami Heat from Cleveland and Kareem

(24:58):
the famous trade lou Al sender Kareem abdul Jabbar from
Milwaukee to the Lakers, and you go down the list
all the greats. Babe Ruth was traded. For Heaven's sakes,
Mookie Betts was given away by the Red Sox of
the Dodgers. You can go on and on all right.
It is the Bend Maller Show coming up little little
later this hour. We have the Mallard Melissa feud. Take
some more calls before then. Right now, though, let's get

(25:19):
over to the Sporting News desk and we say hello
to gas Light guards. See it right over there, the
puck Ducker, the shut up cock of sports Talk steamboat Willie.
All right, thank you, Ben. We start with the NBA
All Star Game, No defense required, Team Jannis with a

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one eighty four to one seventy five win over Team Lebron.
They had a little fantasy draft there before the game,
and then they went out and played. Jason Tatum had
fifty five points, it's an All Star Game record, and
was named most Valuable Player from the Boston Celtics. Lebron
James didn't play in the second half. He suffered a
finger injury during this game, and he worried about his
DNA and he said Lebron that he's not in his

(26:04):
DNA to miss the playoffs. So he's worried about that. Yeah, well,
we'll see about that. He says he set out for
precautionary reasons. Is going to be fine. Y'all have an
abundance of caution. Edy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So Lebron didn't
play the second half. Yann stood Kopa played only twenty
seconds in the entire game, left with a wrist injury
that he suffered last Thursday, reportedly going to travel to
New York to see a specialist later today. Top twenty

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five college Basketball. We had three ranked teams in action,
including number two and number three in the land. Number
two Houston beating Memphis seventy two sixty four. Cougars are
twenty five and two and that is the best record
in Division one men's college basketball. Number three racket coologies
coming up here, Eddy, before you know bology a couple
of weeks. Number three per Due rolled over Ohio State
eighty two to fifty five, and number twenty three, as

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he stated, winner over North Carolina seventy seven sixty nine.
Auto Racing Day twenty five hundred. Rickie Stenhouse Junior wins
the Great American Race for the first time in his career.
He wanted under a yellow flag after a wreck on
the last lap. It was the longest Day twenty five
hundred history at two hundred and twelve laps. Golf, John
rom wins the Genesis Invitational and reclaims the number one
spot in the World Golf rankings. He finished seventeen hundred

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part two shots better than Maxhoma. As for Tiger Woods,
he finished tied for forty fifth place, sixteen shots off
the lead. In the NHLSOM Games of note, we had
the Avalanche rolling past the Oilers six five and overtime
Devil's defeat the Jets four to two was the while
getting by the Predators for three nd Blackhawks down the
Maple Leafs five to three. So we told you about
the NBA All Star Game, and that is where we

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I believe that was the television call of the All
Star Game. There as you heard Jason Tatum part of
his fifty five points All Star Game record. And that
is your Progressive play of the day. All right, thank
you for that, Eddie. It is the Benet Mallers Show.
As we continue on through the overnight hours, taking your
riveting phone calls and comments and all that. And Mike

(28:17):
writes in he says, was that Dick and Dayton playing
a banjo slash mandolin on the Daniel Boone parody? I
know it wasn't him singing. No, that was a professionally
made song from collaboration. Collaboration involved in that. We had
Rod the ambassador of Baker's Field, and Tammy and Montana

(28:42):
and they put that all together. It was It was wonderful.
Elo writes and says, I love the ratings talk Lebron's
Miami Heat crushed the ratings. Yeah, well that's true. Listen,
golf the greatest era and I'm not we're not here
talking golf the great This year of all time was
when Tiger Woods was dominating golf, and it was like

(29:04):
Tiger versus the field. It was like would you rather
have Tiger? Would you take the field? What would you
rather have? And people tuned in. The New England Patriots
for twenty years dominated the NFL, and yet people still
tuned in record numbers you want to see the Patriots?
When did you want to see the Patriots lose? Did
you pull for Tom Brady? Do you think Tom Brady

(29:24):
was the devil incarnate? And did you want Brady to lose?
Let's go back to the phones. Hollering James is in
Minneapolis minutes or hello, Hollering James, Oh is he sleeping? Yeah?
You are? No? I'm um what what I'm here? Now?

(29:52):
You're not? Yes, I am. I don't believe you now
you're sleeping. I've got some advice for we man hippiece.
Oh you want to give advice to weed man hippy? Okay,
go ahead, give advice right now. Hey, we hit the
old mare t and I'll beat your afro bro what

(30:12):
some afro dg? Yeah? And you Sadi super crack. I
will step on your back and give you a massage
like it was whack. Hey, James, we're on the erg.
I know man. I'm sorry, Bro. I'm having a good
time in the room over tonight. What are you got

(30:33):
smoking tonight? James? What do we got? Are you drinking smoking?
What do you got going on there? I have a
cigarette in my room, ball room. You're not looking at TV?
Is that a funny cigarette. Is that one of those
funny cigarettes that's in there? Nope, regular tobacco looking. So
weed Man just called me and he said he tent

(30:56):
me a text here. He said, he's willing to get
you whatever you want as long as you send him
your teeth. Would you send Weedman your teeth? Nope, can't
do that. Why not? He said, He'll hook you up
with whatever you want. He just needs some teeth. I'm
measuring something I don't want to lose anymore. Oh you're
missing teeth too, yeah, the front, little one up front?

(31:19):
Oh no, you're missing out boy? What happened to that exa?
It was a little top truck doom Buggy by Brian
Manage roller on the concreet in front of my mom's
house at thirty two nine piles Bury, Minneapolis. I'm like,
I'm glad that you gave the exact address just in
case we wanted to go check the spot in front

(31:41):
the countree. How did anyone say maybe we can fix
that at some point there? Like, hey, we have these
things called Dennists that they could help you out. Yeah,
but Howard Rutting the Denist to help me out with
some money capket but he embezzled some money. The champ

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was sout the tooth rotten out and James head no
more tooth visit that dtase. Oh thank you. We've now
talked about your decayed tooth and we are out of time.
What an amazing call. That was so good. My god,
I think that this show is actually broadcast. Unbelievable. Let's

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say hello, now here's a legend. Let's go to the
mean streets of Brooklyn. Will say hello to Marcel in Brooklyn.
Hello Marcel, Good morning, ben Eddie, Roberto and Ethan in
for Coop d Loop. Happy President's Day. Great to see
you guys again. To start a brand new week, but

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especially it will be President's Day. Have a day off
for today, but tomorrow, as a matter of fact, it
will be a four day work week. What a surprise,
nah man, are you excited to have the day off
from work? You're actually working today? You're you're working anywhere? Unbelievable.
I know everyone else does. It will be a four

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day work week from tomorrow right after the day after
celebrate does And who's your favorite president? Today? On President's Day?
Would you like to change your answer from last time?
Do you have a favorite president. Oh, last year for
President's Day, it will be oh, yes, it will be Trump.
It will be Oh, I cannot see that coming a
president Trump, your favorite president. But President Biden has too

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much bumbling and mumbling all over the place. Yes, he's
not as well spoken as you are, Marcel, clearly. All right. Then,
as we start a brand new day and a brand
new week, a reminder that some of you or some
of you not follow me on Twitter. No nudity stuff
or cursing stuff. If I if everyone sees there cursing,

(33:52):
I will block you. Like but tamble. Are you getting
a lot of you getting a lot of nudity on Twitter? No? No, no, no,
everyone else's nudity, not mine. An dawn all duday. So
new week two, here we go, mallard, militia, a legs,

(34:12):
get into it. Absolutely, it is all right. Look at
that good imaging there. It's changed a lot. All right,
food picks. Who's going first here on the food Yeah,
we got the food picks that we got joining us
now on the mystery phone. Oh, I believe will be
Robin Vegas that he joined. All right, let's check in

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Robin Vegas or Justin and Cincinnati. Either one? Are you there?
Either one? Hello, Good morning you two. Great to see you, Rob.
I can't believe, hush for a second. I can't believe
you wouldn't pick President Obama. And that's very racist of you. Hey, hey,
it's that fool. Justin Cincinnati. Good morning, justin Cincinnati. What

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is your food pick from last night? Well? I had
a bottle of vicoting and a bottle of wine. Then
I woke up this morning, so it didn't work. Wow?
What oh hold, I know? Not a mixed match. Please,
I want to play the game for me, I hope please. Wow,
it's very demanding. Hole, say let's go. I'm gonna go.

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I'm gonna go oodles and noodles. Rob on Twitter for
that to start the week. Eddie, I'm gonna go with pudding.
Chocolate pudding. Not a mixed match. Well you should have
had that, That's what you should have had. You're not
even trying to eat that tomorrow? All right? Then, I'm

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I mean let me see all Ricky, Ricky brilliant for
robertal Good morning, sir. Go ahead. I'm gonna go wings
Buffalo all right, Buffalo Wings, alright, Buffalo Wings not a
mixed match of it and Ethan. Ethan, you're up, go ahead,
and I'm younger with granola. Oh interesting, what do you

(36:04):
get that voice there from Ethan? My buds buddy, exactly?
What's up? Doc? Ben? Yeah? I win? I won the
game for the food pick all the morning piece. What's

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coming up on our program? And yes, you're exactly right,
Ben and Robin Vegas. It's definitely foodles and noodles. Yes,
that's all, thank you, March. I gotta go, March, so
thank you. All right, I need contestants, at least one.
I guess Justin wants to play, so we'll have him play,
but I need somebody else to take on Justin. It's
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time for another Mallard game show. You're so go. We
surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing
a dart light curs. I believe the answer is the Clippers.
That is the top answer. Forty point. It's Maller Malitia,
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(38:17):
You're back, you're gonna play the game, and you will
go against Ricardo in Rhode Island. Hello, Ricardo, I'm bad
all right, you're taking on Justin. You guys, your name
is your buzzer. We start with a toss up question.
So the way this works, hundred people surveyed, and the
top five answers are on the board. Name qualities of

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a bad boss. We've all had a bad boss, Justin.
They're good looking, all right? Is good looking on the board? No? No,
not on the board, all right, Ricardo. Name qualities of
a bad boss. Does nothing at work? Does nothing? No?

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That is also. Oh boy, I thought this would be easy,
but no. Again, these are things that bad bosses are
known for. Think about. Oh, I've got it all right, Justin.
They don't pay you your paycheck. Shout out Fingle fram Brian. Wow.
Uh no, for some reason, that's another strike too from Justin,

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shocking Ricardo in Rhode Island. These are qualities of a
bad boss. They're always late, always late. I think you
know we're gonna count that irresponsible. So that's late if
you're irresponsible, So we'll count that, and that's worth fourteen point. Well,
it's better than you gave Justin, Ricardo, you get to

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go again, Ricardo, name qualities of a bad boss. Come on,
think about it. Somebody that you really want annoy you.
You don't want to work for this person. I'm kind
of my own boss, so I thank here. Personality traits

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that that people have that are annoying. Nothing, all right.
It was a terrible category, unbelievable. Strike two, justin in
Cincinnati again, name qualities of a bad boss. They're insensitive, insensitive.

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Not on the board. Boy, you guys have not done well.
But Ricardo, you win. You got one right. The other
answers we were looking for. Micro manager was number one.
That would be a bad boss who follows up everything new,
incompetent Number two angry, Number three, irresponsible and oblivious. The

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Mallard militia